Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Captain Carr said that the spirit shown this year has been of the first order. Every man is glad that all the others are on the nine, and glad that he himself is playing on it. In practice the friction necessarily due to hard work has been unusually small...
...team hit the ball better than it has done at any time previously this year, as the men made long, hard line drives that were in contrast to the files made in the Holy Cross game. In the field, also, the work was animated and showed the spirit of determination and hard work that pervades the team. Although a heavy thunder shower fell during the practice, the men carried every play through to its end, despite the slippery ground and wet balls...
...eight ways of recovering a man from apparent death. One day he noticed a willow tree bending under a weight of snow but with none of the branches breaking. So in accordance with this idea and what he had learned in China he established the famous Yoshin-riu--"the spirit of the willow tree school." In Japan the art is only taught to men of great moral as well as physical character and before receiving a single lesson the pupil must take an oath never to reveal the secrets...
...thoroughly approve of the CRIMSON'S plan of threshing out differences frankly and this reply is not made in any spirit of controversy. We believe the differences are at bottom only a misunderstanding of the circumstances. The statements published in the communication in the CRIMSON are extremely derogatory to Princeton and as a communication written by a Harvard graduate and published in a Harvard paper will necessarily carry weight, we have felt compelled to reply. If we have handled the statements with small delicacy, it is because incorrect statements cannot be handled with gloves. We sincerely hope and trust that...
...effect upon the team. From the familiar natural law of atrophy, we know that enthusiasm unexpressed, soon ceases to exist. On the other hand, rational and intelligent expression of deep feelings of enthusiasm stimulates our loyalty to class and to college. It fosters that intangible something, known as college spirit,--an element of student life which is absolutely essential to the well being of the University